MADRID, (Portaltic/EP) – Google announced a series of improvements focused on privacy and with which it hopes to offer users greater control over their personal data and protection against harmful content, among which is the possibility of requesting have explicit personal images shared removed from the Finder without your consent or knowledge or that you no longer want them to be visible.
The company recalled that in February of this year it announced a protection measure against explicit images in search results, they are blurred by default when they appear in the results.
This tool is called ‘Safe Search’ (SafeSearch) and serves to avoid all images that contain potentially harmful or sexual material, such as pornography or bloody or violent content. Initially, this filter is automatically applied to accounts of underage users and those supervised by adults.
Safe Search has reached Google Search with its latest update, which will be rolled out globally to all users throughout this month and will be the default option for Google Search for all those who have not yet activated this system filtering.
The company explained that it is possible to deactivate this filter at any time from the settings, unless someone, an adult or administrator of the educational network, has blocked it.
On the other hand, it has updated its policies on explicit personal images. Any user may request that any sexually explicit personal image that appears in it and that has been created and published without their consent be removed from the Search Engine.
In addition, users can also request Google to remove such content that they no longer want to be visible in search results, as long as it is not currently being marketed. For example, content that was posted in the past was then deleted and republished without your consent.
In this sense, he announced that he has simplified the forms used to send these requests for the removal of content. With all this, he has clarified that “removing content from Google Search does not remove it from the web or other search engines”, although he hopes that these changes “give the user more control over the private information that appears in the Search of Google”.
RESULTS ABOUT YOU
Google also announced news related to the ‘Results about you’ feature, which launched last year and is currently available in the United States, although it will reach new regions and new languages soon.
This is focused on making it easier for the user to request the removal of search results that contain personal data, which may be their personal phone number, address or email, among others.
The novelty, in this case, is that this tool now allows you to track this information, so that the Search Engine notifies its owners that it is available so that they can delete it.
